The strike revealed the efforts public school teachers in the region routinely make to support all the needs of their students, including feeding them. Before the holiday last week, Shelby Leatherman, a special-needs teacher at Meigs Intermediate School in rural southeastern Ohio, helped make a whole Thanksgiving meal for her class […]
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In West Virginia, an Outbreak and Few Answers
This article was originally published by Rewire.News. Opioids and a rise in people experiencing homelessness have been blamed for a hepatitis A epidemic in West Virginia. But advocates for the homeless say the local census doesn’t support that. West Virginia has been struggling with an outbreak of hepatitis A, according […]
Read MorePractitioners of Last Resort: Appalachia’s Alternative Health-Care Providers
This story was originally published on Rewire. Poverty limits access. To everything. Health care is no different. What’s unique about alternative or integrated care is that there is often no middle man, no gatekeeper. When I went to my first appointment with a clinical herbalist, I trembled. Instinctively, I put […]
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